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Sweetening and hard effects

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Sweetening and hard effects

Remember that on the set location sound recordists are preoccupied with recording the best dialog possible. They're armed with very focused shotgun microphones that hone in on one area. It makes sense then that the other production sounds, such as a door closing, putting a glass down, or hanging up a telephone, will naturally be off access to the microphones, and maybe a little dull. Sweetening is the process of making these dull recordings come to life. You can use sound effects to give dimension and weight to sonic events that were recorded on the set but are a little flat sounding. Here we're going not sweeten the coffee cup sounds in this scene. Let's watch the scene. (paper shuffling) (coffee cup clinking) (Character: Hi Charlie.) So there are two sounds we're going to work on there. He takes a sip of coffee, which we can barely hear, and he puts the cup down, which we could make a little more exciting. So I've dropped in some markers already to indicate where these two sound…

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